Keeping stress at bay in a fast and furious city

Watch what you eat. Get enough hours of sleep. Take care of your body. Smoking will kill you. Drinking will kill you slowly. But what about stress? Where are the do's and don'ts to govern our daily routines? Why can't the dosage of stress be measured the same way one decides to smoke one cigarette, consume 500 calories, or go to work with three hours of sleep? Stress is often the intangible mistress of all the bad habits we're supposed to snidely brush aside. The more bad habits you've got usually means the more stress you're under. Or does it? Gulf News spoke to members of a generation living at the opposite sides of the spectrum of extreme lifestyles. Surprise, surprise: stress follows those harbouring the best behaviour as well. Is there a way to put our hands around the force that steals our health and happiness and leads to illnesses ranging from high blood pressure to skin and heart diseases? From health freaks to party animals to go-getters to workaholics, we attempt to unravel the wily ropes intertwining stress with behaviour in a variety of lifestyles.